The Alternative Weekly Roundup is a column where our staff plugs a variety of new releases in a concise, streamlined format. Albums, singles, videos, and live sets. Check back each Monday to see what we were jamming the week prior. A Country Western – Life on… Read More »The Alt Weekly Roundup (4/1)
Wests Tigers. NRL finals. It’s too early to put those two terms in the same sentence but their fans can dare to dream once more after the Benjaissance delivered a second straight boilover. Benjolution? Benjovation? There’s something there. And there’s plenty brewing at the Tigers… Read More »NRL Power Rankings: Round 4 – Tigers in finals mix? Panthers’ challengers falling by the wayside, Roosters lay an egg
The T-CUP principle is one that is used throughout sport psychology; and in rugby circles really came to the fore in 2003, with Clive Woodward’s World Cup-winning England team, that clinched the title in extra-time with that drop goal. T-CUP: Thinking Calmly Under Pressure The… Read More »The simple fix that could’ve spared Reds, Tahs GP heartbreak and could prevent it from happening again
On its second album, Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies, one-man black/death metal outfit Altar of Gore strips death metal back to its rawest, purest form and revels in it. Following the project’s last release, 2022’s Infinite Visions of Violence, Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies comes from a similar… Read More »Track Premiere: Altar of Gore – ‘Carrion Womb’
For the second race and first road course of 2024, IndyCar tried something new at the Thermal Club Million Dollar Challenge in Southern California’s Coachella Valley. The three-mile course in a gated community wasn’t designed for open-wheel racing and can’t exactly handle a standard points… Read More »IndyCar’s Thermal experiment: Was it worth it, or was it just an expensive ‘headache’?